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Books and Editions

• 2006 The Power of Analogy. An Essay on Historical Linguistics. (TiLSM, 170). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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• 2000 New Approaches to Old Problems. Papers from the Parasession on Historical Linguistics, LSRL XXIX. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 210). Amsterdam: Benjamins. Co-editor with Steven N. Dworkin.
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• 1994 Clitics. A Comprehensive Bibliography 1892-1991. (Library and Information Sources in Linguistics 21). Amsterdam: Benjamins. Co-author with Joël Nevis, Brian Joseph and Arnold Zwicky.
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• 1991 New Analyses in Romance Linguistics. Papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, 18 (April 7-9, 1988, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), ed. by D. Wanner and D.A. Kibbee. Amsterdam: Benjamins (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 69 ). xviii + 406 pp.
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• 1987 The Development of Romance Clitic Pronouns from Latin to Old Romance. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, 3), Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter. xxxvi + 662 p.
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• 1975 Diachronic Studies in Romance Linguistics, ed. M. Saltarelli and D. Wanner. The Hague: Mouton (Janua Linguarum, Series Practica, 207).
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• 197l Phonematik eines venezianischen Idiolekts (Dissertation) Zürich: Juris

Journal Articles

• 2006 An analogical solution to Span. soy, doy, voy, estoy. Probus 18.2:235-277 (revised and expanded version of 2005).
• 2005 A Romance solution to Span. soy, doy, voy, estoy. Cuadernos de Lingüística 12.1-19. (Madrid: Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset).
• 2003 Romance linguistics is alive and well. La Corónica 31.2:103-114.
• 1987 Clitic pronouns in Italian: A linguistic guide. Italica 64:3.410-442.
• 1977 On the order of clitics in Italian. Lingua 43.101-128.
• 1998 El orden de los clíticos agrupados en castellano. THESAURUS. Boletín del Instituto Caro y Cuervo 48 (1994).1-57.
• 1985 Report on the Colloquium on Hispanic Phonology. Univ. of Louisville, Dec. 1984. Hispanic Linguistics 2:1.153-161.
• 1981 Surface complementizer deletion: Italian che ˜ Ø. Journal of Italian Linguistics 6.47-82.
• 1981 The language of the Lettere by Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi. Papers in Romance 3.161-178.
• 1979 Die Bewahrung der lateinischen Haupttonstelle im Romanischen. Vox Romanica 37.1-36.
• 1977 Sense and common sense in foreign language teaching. Studies in Language Learning 2.23-33.
• 1975 Die historische Motivierung der Endung -iamo im Italienischen. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 91.153-175.
• 1975 A note on diphthongization. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 5:2.186-202.
• 1970 Substratum as a special case of grammar simplification. Papers in Linguistics 2.415-448.

Book Chapters

• (2006) Clitic linearization in Medieval Catalan, Occitan, and Aragonese. In The Grammar of Catalan Pronouns, ed. Claus D. Pusch. Aachen: Shaker. To appear)
• 2005 The corpus as a key to diachronic explanation. Romanistische Korpuslinguistik II/Romance Corpus Linguistics II, ed. Claus D. Pusch, Johannes Kabatek and Wolfgang Raible, 31-44. Tübingen: Narr (ScriptOralia).
• 2003 Pathways of change: 2nd person plural in Spanish. Theory, Practice, Acquisition, ed. P. Kempchinsky and C.-E. Piñeros, 102-120. Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
• 2001 La pérdida del clítico adverbial y en castellano. Lengua medieval y tradiciones discursivas en la Península Ibérica. Descripción gramatical — pragmática histórica — metodología, ed. J. Kabatek & D. Jacob, 1-28. Frankfurt/ Main: Vervuert & Madrid: Iberoamericana.
• 2001 From Latin to the Romance Languages. Language Universals and Language Typology (Handbook of Linguistics and Communication Science), ed. Martin Haspelmath et al., vol. 2:2, Beitrag 120, 1691-1706. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 2000 Excursiones entorno al viaje. El nuevo mundo y el antiguo: Literatura de viaje, ed. Salvador García Castañeda, 7-14. Madrid: Castalia.
• 2000 Beyond parameters. New Approaches to Old Problems. Papers from the Parasession on Historical Linguistics, LSRL XXIX, ed. Stephen Dworkin and Dieter Wanner, 1-31. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• 1999 Toward a historical syntax of Castilian. Essays in Hispanic Linguistics dedicated to Paul M. Lloyd, ed. R. J. Blake et al., 189-207. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta.
• 1999 Sintaxis nuclear en la prosa de los orígenes. Actas del IV Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, ed. Claudio García Turza et al., 1.897-910. Logroño: Univ. Press of La Rioja.
• 1999 Clitic clusters in Romance: A modest account. Grammatical Analyses in Basque and Romance Linguistics. Papers in honor of Mario Saltarelli, ed. Jon Franco et al., 257-277. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• 1998 Toward a historical syntax of Castilian. Perspectives on Spanish Linguistics 2. Columbus, OH: Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, OSU.
• 1998 L'inafferrabilità del cambiamento diacronico. Atti del XXI Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza, ed. Giovanni Ruffino, 1.471-481. (Tavola Rotonda della Sezione I). Tübingen: Niemeyer.
• 1998 Les subordonnées à double complémentateur en roman médiéval. Atti del XXI Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza, ed. Giovanni Ruffino, 1.421-433. (Communicazioni di lavori della Sezione I). Tübingen: Niemeyer.
• 1997 Dialect variation as a consequence of standardization. Taming the Vernacular: From dialect to written standard language, ed. J. Cheshire and D. Stein, 218-231. Frankfurt: Lang.
• 1996 Second position clitics in Medieval Romance. Approaching Second. Second position clitics and related phenomena, ed. A.L. Halpern and A.M. Zwicky, 537-579. Stanford: CSLI.
• 1993 Multiple clitic linearization principles. Perspectives on the Romance Languages: Selected papers from the XXI Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. ed. W.J. Ashby et al., 281-302. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• 1993 L'expression du sujet dans les langues romanes. Actes du XX Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, vol. x: Typologie, ed. W. Raible and W. Oesterreicher, 449-460. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
• 1992 Subjects in Old Spanish: Conflicts between typology, syntax and dynamics. Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory. ed. P. Hirschbühler & K. Koerner, 339-372. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• 1992 pienes = peños en dos documentos judeoespañoles del siglo XIII. Actas del II° Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, Sevilla, March 1990, ed. R. Cano Aguilar, 1367-1384. Sevilla: Pabellón de España.
• 1991 Historical syntax and Old Spanish text files. Linguistic Studies on Medieval Spanish, ed. R. Harris-Northall and T. D. Cravens, 165-189. Madison, WI: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies.
• 1991 The Tobler-Mussafia Law in Old Spanish. Current Studies in Spanish Linguistics, ed. Héctor Campos and Fernando Martínez-Gil, 313-78. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown Univ. Press.
• 1990 Le subjonctif de subordination en latin vulgaire: Questions indirectes et adverbiales temporelles. Latin vulgaire - latin tardif II. Actes du IIème Colloque cnternational sur le latin vulgaire et tardif (Bologne, 29 août - 2 sept. 1988), ed. G. Calboli, 249-280. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
• 1989 On metathesis in diachrony. Papers from the 25th Annual Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, April 27-29, 1989. I: General Session, ed. C. Wiltshire et al., 434-450. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
• 1989 The continuum of verb position typology in Romance languages. Studies in Romance Linguistics. Papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 17 (March 1987), ed. J.A. DeCesaris and K. Kirschner, 443-477. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• 1987 On the persistence of imperfect grammars: Clitic Movement from Latin to Romance.Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Pavia 1985), ed. A. Giacalone Ramat et al., 575-590. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• 1987 Le latin vulgaire comme documentation du protoroman. Latin vulgaire - latin tardif. Actes du Ier colloque international de latin vulgaire et tardif (Pécs, Hungary 1985), ed. J. Herman, 215-234. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
• 1985 Protohistoire du placement des clitiques en roman. Actes du XVIIe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, Aix-en-Provence 1983, 2:391-405. Aix-en Provence: Publications de l'Université de Provence; Marseille: Laffitte.
• 1983 Intorno alla sintassi pronominale alpina. Problemi linguistici nel mondo alpino. Ticino - Grigioni - Italia, ed. R. Martinoni and V. Raschèr, 169-185. Naples: Liguori.
• 1982 A history of Spanish clitic movement. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, ed. M. Macaulay et al., 135-147. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistic Society.
• 1982 Pragmatics and syntax in Portuguese clitic placement. Current Research in Romance Languages, ed. J. Lantolf and G. Stone, 194-206. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Linguistics Club.
• 1981 Clitic placement from Old to Modern Italian: Morphologization of a syntactic rule. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages: 9, ed. W.W. Cressey and D.J. Napoli, 331-348. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
• 1980 Romance and the rhythmical nature of stress. Contemporary Studies in Romance Languages, ed. F.H. Nuessel, Jr., 331-345. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Linguistics Club.
• 1980 Early intervocalic voicing in Tuscan. Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, eds. E. C. Traugott et al., 339-347. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Co-author with T.D. Cravens.
• 1979 Notes on the phonology of Catalan clitics. Actes del Primer Col.loqui d'Estudis Catalans a Nord-Amèrica , ed. A. Porqueras-Mayo et al., 111-128. Barcelona: Montserrat.
• 1979 Condizioni paradigmatiche nel fiorentino antico. Atti del XIV° Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza, ed. A. Vàrvaro, 3:61-73. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• 1978 Modern Greek clitics: Placement, order, and function. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, ed. J.J. Jaeger et al., 268-282. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
• 1976 The heuristics of substratum. Studies in Romance Linguistics, ed. M.P. Hagiwara, 1-13. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House.
• 1974 The evolution of Romance clitic order. Linguistic Studies in Romance Languages, ed. R.J. Campbell et al., 158-177. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
• 1973 Is stress predictable in Italian? Issues in Linguistics. Papers in Honor of Henry and Renée Kahane, ed. B.B. Kachru et al., 875-896. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• 1972 The derivation of inflectional paradigms in Italian. Generative Studies in Romance Languages, ed. J. Casagrande and B. Saciuk, 293-3l8. Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House.

Reviews

• 2001 Review of Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione, ed. by Lorenzo Renzi et al. 1988-1995 (3 vols.). Romance Philology 54:113-122.
• 2000 Review of Construcciones causativas en el español medieval, by M. Alfonso Vega. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 77:632-633.
• 1998 Review of El trueque s/x en español antiguo. Aproximaciones teóricas, by J. del Valle. Diachronica 15.1:157-160.
• 1996 Review of Syntax des gesprochenen Bündnerromanischen, by T. Ebneter. Romance Philology 49.4:455-462.
• 1996 Review of Studien zum Bündnerromanischen, by P. Linder. Romance Philology 49.1:91-98.
• 1995 Review of Motives for Linguistic Change in the Formation of the Spanish Object Pronouns, by J. Rini. Hispanic Review 62:405-406.
• 1993 Review of Die Identitätspronomina in der Romania, by S. Romoth. Romance Philology 46.4:479-485.
• 1992 Review of La sintassi dei pronomi relativi in italiano moderno, by L. Larsson. Italica 69.4:540-545.
• 1992 Review of Grammatik der italienischen Sprache, by Chr. Schwarze. Romance Philology 46.2:162-169.
• 1992 Review of A History of the Spanish Language, by R. Penny. The Modern Language Journal 76.4:579-580.
• 1991 Una perspectiva sobre la evolución de la lingüística románica. (A propósito de la traducción española de Storia, problemi e metodi della linguistica romanza, de A. Vàrvaro. España Contemporánea 4.1:109-114.
• 1991 Review of Bibliografía de sintaxis española (1960-1984), by R. González Pérez and A. M. Rodríguez Fernández. Hispanic Review 59:454-457.
• 1990 Review of Prospettive della ricerca etimologica, by Y. Malkiel. Italica 67.3:407-411.
• 1990 Review of GURT '88, ed. T. A. Walsh. Modern Language Journal 74.250-251.
• 1981 Besprechung von Contatti interlinguistici e mass media, von I. Gutia et al. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 97:546-548.
• 1979 Besprechung von Generative Phonologie des Dialekts von Genua, von W. Forner. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 95:261-266.
• 1977 Review of Form und Funktion in der Wortbildung, and of Diminutiv- und Augmentativbildungen. Regeln und Restriktionen, by S. Ettinger. Studies in Language 1:149-153.
• 1977 Recensione di La morfosintassi dei pronomi personali soggetti della terza persona in italiano e fiorentino, di I. Boström. Vox Romanica 36:286-289.
• 1977 Besprechung von Italian Linguistics, vol.s 1976/1 und 1976/2. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 93:641-647.
• 1976 Recensione di Fonematica e monematica. Proposte per un'analisi unitaria, di G.C. Vincenzi. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 92:158-159.
• 1975 Besprechung von Einführung in die hispanistische Sprachwissenschaft, von M. Metzeltin. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 91:559-561.
• 1974 Review of The Tense Aspect System of the Spanish Verb as Used in Cultivated Bogotá Spanish, by C. Rallides. Kritikon Litterarum 3:147-150.
• 1974 Review of Generative Morphologie des Neufranzösischen, by F. Kiefer. Kritikon Litterarum 3:233-238.
• 1971 Review of Strutture sintattiche del predicato in italiano, by A. Puglielli. Papers in Linguistics 4:395-404.

Papers Read

• 2006 SPAN 830 Colloquium in Hispanic Linguistics, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, OSU, May 23, 2006. "Pora lo esplanar & departir uos lo. Pronombres átonos con infinitivo o la centralidad de los márgenes".
• 2006 Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. "Nonfinite verbs as clitic pronoun hosts in Spanish diachrony: Peripheral variability".
• 2005 Romance Linguistics Seminar 33, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (UK), January 2005. "Diachronic morphology as analogy: Romance verb forms".
• 2004 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 34, Univ. of Utah, March 2004. "Diachronic morphology as analogy. Romance verb forms".
• 2003 Hispanic Linguistic Symposium VII, Univ. of New Mexico October 2003. "A Comparative Romance Solution to Span. soy, voy, doy, estoy".
• 2002 Hispanic Linguistic Symposium VI, Univ. of Iowa, October 2002. "Pathways of change: 2nd person plural in Spanish".
• 1999 52nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 22-24, 1999. "Considerations for a historical syntax of Castilian: To honor Paul M. Lloyd".
• 1999 16th Kansas State University Conference for Department Chairs, Orlando, Florida, February 11-13, 1999. "Affirmative Action Policy: Order from Chaos". Copresenting with Sally Kitch and Isaac Mowoe.
• 1997 IV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Historia de la Lengua Española. Logroño (Spain). April 1-5, 1997. "Sintaxis nuclear in el prosa de los orígenes".
• 1997 First Colloquium on Hispanic Linguistics. Miami Univ., Oxford, OH. October 1997. "Hacia una sintaxis histórica del castellano".
• 1993 Workshop on Second Position Clitics. (LSA Linguistic Institute, The Ohio State Univ., July 7, 1993). "Second position clitics in Medieval Romance".
• 1992 XXe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, Zurich, April 6-11, 1992. "Contre une typologie de l'expression du sujet dans les langues romanes.".
• 1991 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXI, Santa Barbara, February 21-24, 1991. "Multiple Clitic Linearization Principles".
• 1991 Workshop Focus on Clitics: A Hundred Years of Wackernagel's Law. July 17, 1991, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz (in connection with Linguistic Institute of LSA) "Survey of diachronic developments surrounding clitic elements in the Romance languages".
• 1990 Segundo Congreso Intrenacional de Historica de la Lengua Española, March 5-10, 1990, Sevilla. "pienes 'prenda' en dos documentos judeoespañoles del siglo XIII".
• 1990 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XX, Ottawa, April 1990. "Subjects as topics in Old Spanish: Conflicts between typology, syntax and dynamics".
• 1989 Chicago Linguistic Society, April 27-29, 1989. "On metathesis in diachrony".
• 1989 Coloquio Hispánico, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, OSU, January 23, 1989. "La centralidad de la lingüística histórica".
• 1988 2e Colloque International de Latin Vulgaire et Tardif, Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 1989, Bologna. "Le subjonctif de subordination en latin vulgaire: Questions indirectes et adverbiales temporelles.".
• 1987 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, XVII, The Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. "The continuum of verb position typology in the Romance languages".
• 1987 Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, December 28-30, 1987. "Unstressed object pronouns in Old Spanish: NP vs. clitic status".
• 1986 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVI, University of Texas, Austin. "Non-null subject expression in Romance".
• 1985 38th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington. "Verb position from Latin to Old Romance".
• 1985 International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 7, Pavia (Italy). "On the persistence of imperfect grammars: Clitic Movement from Latin to Romance".
• 1985 Premier Colloque International de Latin Vulgaire, Pécs (Hungary). "Le latin vulgaire comme documentation du proto-roman".
• 1984 Linguistic Seminar, University of Illinois. "Latin origin of Romance clitic syntax".
• 1983 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XIII; University of North Carolina. "On the origin of Romance clitic placement".
• 1983 Coloquio sobre el español en Puerto Rico, Univ. of Illinois. "La subida de clíticos en el español de Puerto Rico" (with a group of Univ. of Illinois students).
• 1983 XVIIe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, Aix-en-Provence. "Protohistoire du placement des clitiques en roman".
• 1981 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XI; University of Texas, San Antonio. "Pragmatics and syntax in Portuguese clitic placement".
• 1981 Linguistic Society of America, New York City. "A history of Spanish clitic movement".
• 1981 Linguistic Seminar, University of Illinois. "History of Romance clitic movement".
• 1980 American Association of University Professors of Italian, 1, University of Illinois. "On the language of the Lettere by Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi".
• 1980 XVIe Congrès International de Linguistique et Philologie Romanes, Palma de Mallorca. "Diachronie abstraite et interférence superficielle".
• 1979 International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 4; Stanford University. "Early intervocalic voicing in Tuscan" (with T.D. Cravens).
• 1979 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages IX; Georgetown Univ. "Clitic placement from Old to Modern Italian: Morphologization of a syntactic rule".
• 1979 First Colloquium on Catalan Studies in North America, University of Illinois. "Notes on the phonology of Catalan clitics".
• 1979 Linguistic Society of America, Salzburg (Austria) (Summer Meeting). "Parataxis vs. hypotaxis: Italian surface complementizer deletion".
• 1978 Berkeley Linguistics Society, 4 University of California, Berkeley. "Modern Greek clitics: Placement, order, and function".
• 1978 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages VIII; University of Louisville. "Romance and the rhythmical nature of stress".
• 1978 Linguistic Society of America, University of Illinois (Summer Meeting). "Stressed clitics".
• 1976 Linguistic Society of America, Philadelphia. "The development of Romance clitics".
• 1975 28th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky. "A unified derivation of Romance nouns".
• 1975 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages V; University of Michigan. "The heuristics of substratum".
• 1975 International Linguistic Association, New York City. "The loss of Middle High German devoicing in Swiss German".
• 1975 Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco. "Reconstruction of a lost rule".
• 1974 International Linguistic Association, New York City. "Correlational paradigms in Swiss German".
• 1973 26th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky. "The evidence for phonological rules in Romance".
• 1973 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages III; Indiana University. "Evolution of Romance clitic order".
• 1971 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages I; University of Florida. "The derivation of inflectional paradigms in Italian".
• 1971 Linguistic Seminar, University of Illinois. "Paradigms, rules, and derivational constraints".
• 1970 Linguistic Seminar, University of Illinois. "Is stress predictable in Italian?".
• 1969 Linguistic Seminar, University of Illinois. "Why the -i in Italian".

Invited Talks

• 2006 VII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, Mérida (Yuc.), Mexico, Sept. 4-8, 2006, "Pora lo esplanar & departir uos lo. Pronombres átonos con infinitivo o la centralidad de los márgenes".
• 2006 Workshop on Analogy. Dept. of Linguistics, The Ohio State University. January 16, 2006. "The Logic of Analogy. Exemplars of analogical change in morphology and syntax".
• 2005 Universidad Castilla la Mancha, Ciudad Real. Filología Hispánica y Clásica. March 17, 2005. "La analogía como fuerza principal del cambio lingüístico".
• 2005 Université de Lausanne, Département de Langue Espagnole. April 29, 2005. "Investigación de la sintaxis histórica con bancos de datos electrónicos".
• 2005 Université de Paris III, Sorbonne; Cercle Alfred Ernout. May 21, 2005. "L'émergence des pronoms clitiques dans le proto-roman: l'évidence du latin vulgaire et tardif".
• 2004 4. Internationales Graduiertensymposium LIPP, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, November 25-26, 2004.
• 2003 2. Internationale Arbeitstagung zur Korpuslinguistik, Freiburg i.Br. (Germany) "Data ex machina: The corpus as a key to diachronic explanation".
• 1999 12. Deutscher Hispanistentag, Humboldt-Universität Berlin "La pérdida de los adverbios clíticos y y ende".
• 1999 Parasession on Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXIX, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor "Beyond typologies and parameters: A dynamic perspective".
• 1998 Univ. of Southern California, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese "A history of Spanish clitic syntax".
• 1997 Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Filología Castellana "Una sintaxis histórica de los clíticos en castellano".
• 1997 Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Instituto de Filología Epañola. "Proyecto para una sintaxis histórica del castellano".
• 1997 Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid "Hacia una sintaxis histórica de los clíticos en castellano".
• 1996 Department of Linguistics, Univ. of Toronto. "'Poor Syntax': Reevaluation of Syntactic Change in Spanish".
• 1995 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Linguistenkreis. "Möglichkeiten der diachronen Syntax".
• 1995 International Colloquium on Dialects and Syntax, Heinrich Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. "Dialect Variation as a Consequence of Standardization".
• 1995 XXI Congresso Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Romanza, Palermo, Sept. 1995. Tavola Rotonda, Sez. I: "Il cambiamento diacronico: la sua necessaria inafferrabilità".
• 1994 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Dept. de Filología Hispánica. "Clíticos de segunda posición en el castellano medieval".
• 1994 Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Instituto de Filología Española. "El agrupamiento de los clíticos en las lenguas romances".
• 1994 Maximilian-Ludwigs-Universität München, Romanisches Seminar. "Pronominale Gruppen: Eine Zwangslage zwischen Morphologie und Syntax".
• 1993 International Linguistic Association, New York (Hunter College). "The Challenge of Romance Clitic Pronouns".
• 1987 Karl-Marx-Universität, Leipzig (GDR). "Das typologische Kontinuum der Verbstellung in den romanischen Sprachen" and "Positiver Subjektsausdruck im Romanischen".
• 1984 Univ. degli Studi di Padova. "La posizione del verbo fra il latino e l'italiano antico" and "Protostoria del movimento dei clitici nelle lingue romanze antiche".
• 1984 Università degli Studi di Firenze. "L'evoluzione dello spostamento dei pronomi clitici atoni dal latino all'italiano antico".
• 1980 Universität Bern, Romanisches Seminar (Switzerland). "Notizen zu einer Theorie der Klitika".
• 1980 Universität Zürich, Romanisches Seminar (Switzerland). "Tra sintassi e stile: La cancellazione superficiale di che".
• 1977 Université de Lausanne (Switzerland). "Il destino di -s finale in italiano". "Romanische Klitika im Umbruch".

Recent Papers

• 2006 Linguistic Society of America, Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM; January 5-8, 2006. "Nonfinite verbs as clitic pronoun hosts in Spanish diachrony: Peripheral variability".
• 2005 Romance Linguistics Seminar 33, Trinity Hall, Cambridge (UK), January 5-6, 2005. "Diachronic morphology as analogy: Romance verb forms".

Recent Lectures

• 2006 VII Congreso Internacional de Historia de la Lengua Española, Mérida (Yuc.), Mexico, Sept. 4-8, 2006, "Pora lo esplanar & departir uos lo. Pronombres átonos con infinitivo o la centralidad de los márgenes".
• 2005 Université de Paris III, Sorbonne; Cercle Alfred Ernout. May 21, 2005. "L'émergence des pronoms clitiques dans le proto-roman: l'évidence du latin vulgaire et tardif".
• 2005 Université de Lausanne, Département de Langue Espagnole. April 29, 2005. "Investigación de la sintaxis histórica con bancos de datos electrónicos".
• 2004 4. Internationales Graduiertensymposium LIPP, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, November 25-26, 2004. "Romanische Klitika im Umbruch".

Awards

• 1994 - 1995 Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Award (10 month research period spent at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i. Br., Germany, in association with the SFB 325 "Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit", dir. by W. Raible)
• Spring 1994 Visiting Professor at the Instituto Ortega y Gasset, Madrid (Historical Spanish Syntax, one-quarter course at their Instituto Universitario, doctoral program in Linguistics)
• 1983/84 National Endowment for the Humanities: Senior Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (Topic: Romance clitic elements)

Professional Activities

• 2006 External evaluation team, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, and Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• 2001 External evaluation team, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana Univ.
• 1999 – Present Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Diachronica (Amsterdam: Benjamins).
• 1999 Co-organizer (with Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach) of International Colloquium on Describing, Theorizing, and Teaching Grammar: Spanish towards the XXI Century; OSU, November 5, 1999.
• 1998 External evaluation team, Dept. of Romance and Classical Languages, Michigan State Univ.
• 1996 Dept. of French, Univ. of Toronto. External member on Final Oral Defense of doctoral dissertation: "La variation grammaticale en géolinguistique: les pronoms sujet en roman central" by David J. Heap.
• 1994 Member of Dissertation Defense Committee, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid. "Una propuesta de codificación morfosintáctica" by Aurora Martín Santa Olalla Sánchez.
• 1988 Co-organizer of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Linguistics XVIII, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana april 7-9, 1988 (with Douglas A. Kibbee)
• 1987 - 91 Elected to full term on Executive Committee of MLA section 43: Language Theory (Chair, 1990)
• 1986 – Present Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL): Evaluation of abstracts and proceedings volumes (repeatedly)
• 1983 - 98 Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Romance Philology
• 1978 Organizer of the Colloquium on Romance Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana; July 27, 1978 (held in conjunction with the Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America )
• 1972 Co-director of the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages II (LSRL II), then called Conference on Diachronic Romance Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana; April 21-2, 1972 (with M. A. Saltarelli).
• Peer reviewer for NSF, NEH, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, Language, Romance Philology, Diachronica, Italica, Probus, Hispanic Linguistics, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, LSRL Proceedings volumes, HLS proceeding volumes, Yale University Press, Blackwell, Cambridge Univ. Press, John Benjamins
• Tenure and/or promotion reviews for Univ. of Illinois, Indiana University, Univ. of Georgia, Univ. of California, Davis, Univ. of Virginia, Fordham Univ., Wayne State Univ.